The Official #6 [2] Tennessee vs. [15] Saint Peter's Game Thread, 9:20 PM ET, TNT

[supersmo18]

It'd be a nice 40th bday present to have it over at the half.

Happy birthday @YankeeVol

 

[Hulavol]

Happy birthday Yankee ! May your day be filled with magic and joy and a big fat orange W!!

 

[berryvol]

I was sure he lost at Texas to a 15 seed

Womp womp

 

[VolBalls33]

If UT wins by 20 and doesn't cover I will be one happy fan. Barnes won't be thrilled losing to Texas if that's who UT plays.

 

[DarkVolder]

Tennessee has 12 regular season SEC championships now. I’ve seen 11 reported a few times. But the list is here. It’s 12, which is good for 2nd all-time (by ourselves).

List of Southeastern Conference men's basketball champions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Almost more SEC titles in Basketball as in football. Are we a basketball school now?

 

[Stoked]

Upset special right here. Our boys better be ready tomm, and Barnes has lost as a 2 seed to a 15 before

No he hasn't. It's happened 11 times in the history of the tournament, but has happened 3 years in a row so that's not good.

 

[Sudden Impact]

Almost more SEC titles in Basketball as in football. Are we a basketball school now?

I guess you did your research on Barnes and found out he has not lost to a 15 Seed.
To be a BB Blue Blood and a BB school you need to win several NCs or participate in several FF.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

Womp womp

Did you sleep at all last night BV?

 

[Lefteye]

It'd be a nice 40th bday present to have it over at the half.

Happy birthday, Yankee. Hope it's a gooden

 

[RavinDave]

It'd be a nice 40th bday present to have it over at the half.

Happy Birthday YankeeVol!

I hope your wish comes true!

 

[malinoisvol]

It'd be a nice 40th bday present to have it over at the half.

Happy Birthday, Yank!

 

[Kicker82]

I'm anticipating a low stress game tonight and fairly low stress game on Saturday.

2 wins gets the Vols to the sweet 16 and having 5 days off.

Low stress game tonight is very likely. Texas or Colorado state both are decent teams and I would expect some stress Saturday even if we end up winning.

 

[knoxvol52]

Tennessee 75
The Peacocks 54

 

[Vol4gzus]

We win but do we cover (-21.5)??

I wouldn't bet on it...ha...you set me up...ha

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Tennessee has 12 regular season SEC championships now. I’ve seen 11 reported a few times. But the list is here. It’s 12, which is good for 2nd all-time (by ourselves).

List of Southeastern Conference men's basketball champions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There’s some unexplained bookkeeping in the 1940s. The SEC gives 1941 and 1943 to TN and 1942 to KY. Wikipedia shows co-champions all 3 years. Either the SEC recognizes a tie breaker or WW2 disrupted the recognition of champions.

Men's Basketball SEC Champions - Southeastern Conference

Men's Basketball SEC Champions

www.secsports.com

 

[berryvol]

Did you sleep at all last night BV?

3 hours baby. Miller lite and chicken wings will sustain my energy for the next 12 hours.

 

[Kicker82]

I really hope James and vescovi spoke to a sports therapist and worked on their shots this last week. This team has to have them to stay around for a while.

 

[kckempf]

There’s some unexplained bookkeeping in the 1940s. The SEC gives 1941 and 1943 to TN and 1942 to KY. Wikipedia shows co-champions all 3 years. Either the SEC recognizes a tie breaker or WW2 disrupted the recognition of champions.

Men's Basketball SEC Champions - Southeastern Conference

Men's Basketball SEC Champions

www.secsports.com

I believe they cont the tournament champion as the regular season champion at that point. At least it's the only explanation that makes sense.

 

[TNVOLFN]

St. Peter’s is a defensive minded, slow tempo team. They will 100% try to slow the game down to a crawl and score in the paint. They are pretty good on the offensive glass and will try to bang the boards and muck this game up. However, St. Peter’s is almost dead last in the country in Effective Field Goal Percentage (359th out of 362) and are just as bad in Adjusted Offensive Efficiency (306th out of 362).

If the Vols establish their pace, this will be a rout. Their defensive metrics are pretty good but I think they’re a little inflated. Playing bad teams and forcing bad teams to operate efficiently in the half court due to their snails pace is where they grind the games away to a win. I don’t see them being able to do any of that to us, at all for that matter.

They also turn the ball over A LOT - not good when you face the likes of ZZ, JJJ, Shack and Vescovi.

 

[suave410ec]

V

 

[gule]

I just found out that youngest daughter and her hubby will be at tonight's UT game. They live within walking distance of the site and she is some kind of bigwig in the on-line marketing world for Walmart and other firms. Some corporation is shmoozing her in an attempt to gain advertising status. I sent my lucky hat and a UT shirt up to her via Wifey to wear... lol. DD is a Villanova fan/grad.

 

[Illinoisvolfan2]

I wouldn't bet on it...ha...you set me up...ha

I’m a little concerned too because of the last 2 games. I don’t think there’s any way we lose but I’m betting on the spread. Haven’t placed it yet.

 

[StoneokeyVol]

Hope we come out fired up and hungry! Flush out the last two games and get a blowout win. Need to get the confidence and energy flowing

 

[UTodd01]

Here's to a happier game thread than last lol

 

[firestorm]

I’m working today so I won’t be able to relax to watch this game.
However, most likely I’ll be able to see portions of it because I work at Texas Roadhouse which does have multiple HD TVs.